IKANOW today released Information Security Analytics (ISA) 1.5. The release includes several new features and some of the most powerful are designed to give information security analysts contextualized search capabilities that can reduce the investigation time between identified incident and confirmed intrusion. In addition, executives and managers can now use the enhanced dashboards to view new data about departmental risk and threat feed efficacy. And, we have added real-time integration for two additional commercial threat intelligence feeds. As with the features in the first release, ISA has maintained its commitment…

Vulnerabilities are growing faster than information security staff capacity. There was a time when knowing your vulnerabilities was the critical challenge in protecting the enterprise. Today, there are many tools that provide near real-time access to vulnerability notification. The question is no longer, “what are my vulnerabilities?” The more important question is, “what is my greatest risk?” If you had sufficient capacity to quickly patch all vulnerabilities, risk wouldn’t be an issue. All vulnerabilities would be closed before risk became a factor for consideration. That is not where most enterprises…